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3CR Interview
On Thursday our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, was the guest on “Yeah Nah Pasaran!” a show run by anti-fascist activists Andy Fleming and Cam Smith on radio station 3CR in Melbourne (855 AM / www.3cr.org.au). In the show we discussed where the Online Hate Prevention Institute came from and what we do. The technical nature of…
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10,000+ people support OHPI
Last month, as part of PayPal Australia’s support for the eSafety Commissioner’s Safer Internet Day initiatives, the Online Hate Prevention Institute was featured in PayPal’s Give At Checkout, fundraising homepage and in the PayPal consumer app and account. This helped increase awareness of our mission to prevent online hate and protect communities and offered PayPal…
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A decade of action on online hate – reflecting on 2012
It may now seem such a routine part of our life, but Social Media platforms have been with us less than 2 decades. myspace was created in 2003, Facebook in 2004, and Twitter in 2005. At first, these platforms seemed a quirky and relatively harmless innovation, but within a few years they had already developed…
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Basic Online Safety Expectations
In October 2021 the Online Hate Prevention Institute provided a submission to the Australian Government’s consultation on the draft Online Safety (Basic Online Safety Expectations) Determination. Today, the new Ministerial Determination was announced and has come into effect. In our submission we stated: We believe the Government has correctly set the roles of Government, Social…
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OHPI celebrates 10 years of impact against trolling, cyberbullying, online hate, and extremism
For the past ten years, The Online Hate Prevention Institute has played a leading global role in combating the spread of many types of hate through the internet. Incorporated on 23 January 2012, the institute has highlighted how organisations and individuals have exploited the web to foster bigotry along with religious and racial intolerance. Its…
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Presenting to Parliament on Social Media
Our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, gave evidence to the House Select Committee Inquiry into Social Media and Online Safety. The inquiry of the Australian Parliament was held via videoconference. In the hearing we appeared along side the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. We discussed the harm and danger of online hate and how in some…
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Guilty Plea to Poway Terrorist Attack
On Friday John T. Earnest, the terrorist responsible for the 2019 attack on the Poway Synagogue in California, pled guilty to 113 Federal Hate Crimes. The announcement from the United States Department of Justice outlines the details of the attack, including the manifesto Earnest posted online just prior to the attack. The Online Hate Prevention…
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OHPI welcomes Victorian Government response on anti-vilification protections
The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), Australia’s only national harm prevention charity dedicated to tackling all forms of online hate and extremism, welcomes the Victorian Government’s response to the inquiry into anti-vilification protections. For almost a decade OHPI has led the response to the growing problem of online vilification which causes real world harm to…
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To tackle Nazi we must tackle incitement
The Australian government must not only ban far-right groups, but also criminalise speech that incites violence in the name of ideological or religious extremism.
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‘The Jewish community owes a debt to the mole who infiltrated the neo-Nazi network’
Our CEO Andre Oboler writes for the Jewish Independent about the recent expose of right-wing extremism in Australia this week by The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes, which identified 24 members of the National Socialist Alliance, including members with gun and security licenses, some even working for the government. Oboler argues that the Jewish community is…